On Jul 5, 5:46 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > > > > Python is simply easier than C++; you might > > > well find that a debugger, for example, doesn't feel as essential > > > as it is for you with C++. > > > That's what I love most about the Python community. Whenever there is > > just a non-standard, platform-dependent or crappy implementation of a > > feature you get told that you don't need it. > > A fairly nice debugger is standard and built-in to the regular Python > distribution on all platforms. > > But 95% of what a debugger is used for IME is getting a stack trace-- > in Python (or Java or Ruby or most modern languages) you get that > automatically, and the debugger is nowhere near as useful as it is in > C or C++.
I am a Python newbie, but unfortunately I don't agree with that. For me having a debugger helped understand very quickly the flow in the libraries for which otherwise I would have had to navigate through code (which once again is not always easy without a good IDE). But this is just a newbie opinion :-), ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
